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ee.data.makeDownloadUrl

  • Theee.data.makeDownloadUrl(id) method creates a download URL from a download ID and token.

  • This method takes aDownloadId as an argument and returns a String representing the download URL.

  • Examples show how to use this method in both JavaScript and Python environments, demonstrating how to obtain a download ID and then generate the corresponding download URL.

Create a download URL from a docid and token.

Returns the download URL.

UsageReturns
ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(id)String
ArgumentTypeDetails
idDownloadIdA download id and token.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.varimg=ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG');// A small region within the image.varregion=ee.Geometry.BBox(-122.0859,37.0436,-122.0626,37.0586);vardownloadId=ee.data.getDownloadId({image:img,name:'single_band',bands:['B3','B8','B11'],region:region});print('Single-band GeoTIFF files wrapped in a zip file',ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(downloadId));

Python setup

See the Python Environment page for information on the Python API and usinggeemap for interactive development.

importeeimportgeemap.coreasgeemap

Colab (Python)

"""Demonstrates the ee.data.makeDownloadUrl method."""importioimportnumpyimportrequests# A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.img=ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG')# A small region within the image.region=ee.Geometry.BBox(-122.0859,37.0436,-122.0626,37.0586)# Image chunk as a NumPy structured array.download_id=ee.data.getDownloadId({'image':img,'bands':['B3','B8','B11'],'region':region,'scale':20,'format':'NPY'})response=requests.get(ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(download_id))data=numpy.load(io.BytesIO(response.content))display(data)display(data.dtype)# Single-band GeoTIFF files wrapped in a zip file.download_id=ee.data.getDownloadId({'image':img,'name':'single_band','bands':['B3','B8','B11'],'region':region})response=requests.get(ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(download_id))withopen('single_band.zip','wb')asfd:fd.write(response.content)

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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.